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Think big they said! I took it literally this time. Project „Amadé“ is the latest in a series of photographic installations and probably the most elaborated one. This is a single image exposure project. It was literally a big piece of work including countless hours of organization, planing, crafting, building test Riggs and of course finally realizing the actual installation of this […]

Is it a bird…? Is it a plane…? We leave it actually up to your imagination what you make out of it ;) This time Ticket to the Moon set up their hammock-fleet at the incredible rock formation of Bismantova in the @Appenino Tosco National Park in Italy. The unusual design was built out of 12 […]

This year the annual hammock gathering moved along the road to the Tijesno Canyon in Bosnia and Herzegowina to the Drill and Chill Climbing and Highlining Festival. This year marks the fourth round of this unusual come together and the set up got even bigger. For this years project the chosen spot was an impressive 80 meter gap over the […]

Tibetan prayer flags are not only a religious symbol but promote peace, compassion, strength, and wisdom and can already be found on mountain tops far beyond the Himalayas. The Tibetans believe the mantras will be blown by the wind to spread the good will and compassion into all pervading space. Therefore, prayer flags are thought to bring benefit to all and they are often hung […]

Experimental project created in cooperation with the Vienna Slackliners. This is a single image realized with a LED lightning equipment and a portable flash system manually triggered. The used exposure is 48 seconds | f/3.5 | ISO 800. Photo and Concept: Sebastian Wahlhuetter Highline Athlete: Harald Höglinger Light Painter: Igor Scotland And here is what […]

The crew members of the Vienna Slackliners pulling of yet another great action at an unusual location. This time the team gathered to realize a project at the atomic power plant in Zwentendorf | Austria. The controversial plant was built in the 1970s and just before firing it up a national referendum in Austria decided opting out of nuclear energy for good. Nowadays […]

One of our images made it to the cover of the April issue of National Geographic Traveller (China). The image shows Dharma Vlad waking up after spending the night on a highline in his hammock suspended 50 meters above the ground and was taken in the early morning hours at around 6.00 a.m. The location […]

Highline Action at the Austrian Climbing Festival in the beautiful Zillertal in Tirol with the awesome boys and girls from the Tiroliners. The line is app. 90 meter in distance and 30 meters high. The spot is called „Ewige Jagdgründe“ (infinite hunting ground) and featured not only a great highline destination but also a variety of mint climbing problems. Image […]

Ticket to the Moon Hammock Session @ Highline Meeting Monte Piana, Italy 2015 | 2350m a.s.l. Monte Piana in the Italian Dolomites is a special place with a long history as the organizers of the annual Highline Meeting in Monte Piana Alesandro d’emilia & Armin Holzer explain: „JUST HUNDRED YEARS AGO WINTERS UP HEAR WERE […]

Yosemite Valley is not only a place full of climbing history but also the birthplace of Slacklining and Highlining. In July 2015 it is exactly 30 years that Scott Balcome was the first to realized this vision of balancing on a one inch line in such rights. The first highline ever walked was the 17m […]

„actually winter !“ Late afternoon session with the Vienna Slackliners @ the outskirts of Vienna with a 150m longline setup. There is an additional rope taped to it – just in order to make it way much harder of course. Anyway not bad for mid of January. #actuallywinter And there is some sag in this set up […]

Since I took my first trials on a highline last week I can finally also talk about some of the experiences you can have when you are on one of this on inch webbings a way too far off the ground. And yes, I even managed to walk two shorter lines but all in all I took probably […]

Very probably the most people and for sure the most hammocks on a highline ever. This special set up was rigged with 1.000 kg of pre-tension and reached 2.350 kg of total work load after 22 people in 16 hammocks volunteered for this epic session @ Monte Piana Highline Meeting | Dolomites | ~2.400 m.a.s.l. […]

Highline project @ the Hannapi Stadion Vienna. Great project with interesting insights behind the scenes of this legendary arena – the former home of the SK Rapid Vienna will be teared down and totally rebuild in a couple of weeks. line: 77m | athletes: Vienna Slackliners | Peter Auer | T. Spöttl | Helmut Netzwerker […]

The legendary Peilstein Highline close to Vienna is around 50m in distance and 40m high. This blog-entry resembles several sessions on this highline including also a second highline of 35m. A project of the Vienna Slackliners –> Athletes: Igor Scotland | Angelika Wild | Peter Auer | Daniel Haberl | Thomas Spöttl | Harald Höger You can find us also […]

This Highline-project @Gasometer Vienna consisted of 3 different highlines [35m | 45m | 95m]. With 95m – 60m above the ground – this is the longest and highest urban highline ever set in Austria and one of the longest in the world. There were a lot of people and skills involved to make this project happen – above all the Vienna […]